Argo (2012)

In 1979 a mob of Iranian Revolutionaries stormed the US embassy and took many hostages and held them for over 400 days, however six members of the embassy managed to escape the mob and took refuge in the Canadian Ambassador's residency. Our CIA department almost immediately began to develop plans and schemes to help them escape the country unharmed. To help out the planning they called in Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) who is specially trained to rescue hostages in international situations. He comes up with a scheme to pose as a Canadian filming crew looking to film a science-fiction movie in Iran. To pull this off though he would have to make it look like an actual movie by hiring the actors, buying the rights to the story of Argo, hiring a director and producer, and have a film company buy into the idea of the movie. On top of that he would have to convince the Iranian government that it is a real movie, and he would have to get the six Americans to buy into the idea of playing a role in this scheme. Even more on top of this he would have to have the Canadian Government's blessing of the idea. The acting was incredible, and the way the movie was directed was beautifully handled, Ben Affleck was truly snubbed by not getting a Oscar nod for this movie. Reading up on the events that took place in the movie he did take some liberties with the end of the film in making the escape from the airport more intense than it actually was, but I can forgive him on that point since the rest of the movie was so well done. The only thing that kept me from giving this movie five stars was the use of profanity near the beginning of the movie. It felt tacked on and unwarranted. I would recommend watching this film.